I don't know why but I like this guy's videos on paranormal woo stuff
I have always thought that the American obsession with cryptids is a release valve for guilt/respect of harms done to nature and indigenous people. It posits that wild things exist beyond our understanding, that they persist despite our environmental devastation, and that they represent the purest spirit of the land. It's not a coincidence that many of them, sasquatch most prominently, are literally figures of Native American myth.
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It's also a form of Orientalism, the myths of cultures that are deliberately being eroded being sold back to us as products to consume, all tinged with the same generic Native American Mysticism that gets the :lmayo: to buy dream catchers and moccasins
I miss the days of tumblr's cultural relevancy, when a title like this would be one shitpost followed by two insightful yes-and's and one guy writing an overstuffed paragraph of trying way too hard and driving the premise into the ground, instead of a 30 minute video essay.
Anyway I have not watched the video and maybe it's good or maybe it's not, I don't know.
one guy writing an overstuffed paragraph of trying way too hard
oh shit oh fuck that's like half of my internet comments :ohnoes:
Mmmm, Shinto usually ends up "causing" cool public green spaces/parks, a big no-no for muricans
Also, they have a predilection for building suburbs on top of native american cemeteries and cutting 3000+ years old trees to run cars through them.
America built a whole country on the graves of natives what's a few suburbs
Ah, didn't know Japan has a history of genocidal conquest, in the isles I mean
my main complain with posadism is that it's almost 99% aliens/nukes and 1% fortean marxist dialectics.
